Amitabh Bachchan felicitated by UNICEF for polio eradication

New Delhi: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF polio campaign, was felicitated by the organization’s representative for India. He was complimented for his active role in spreading awareness for polio immunization in the country.

UNICEF representative for India, Louis Georges Arsenault said that “India’s victory over polio is a huge credit to those who mobilize people for polio vaccination”.

In a bid to show the organization’s gratitude for spreading awareness on the disease, Arsenault felicitated Bachchan, who was an active campaigner.

Amitabh Bachchan expressed his happiness for the disease being finally eradicated from India. "Polio eradicated from India. An eight year campaign with the UNICEF ambassadorship! Feel such accomplishment and joy!," Bachchan posted on Twitter.

He also said “I have been doing this everyday for the past 45 years to stand in front of the camera and talk a few sentences and it is a very easy job for us. But, the really difficult part of the job was of those who, under hard circumstances and situations, went from point to point across the nation and gave the two drops of polio vaccination to save the children from the deadly disease.”

India was declared free of the crippling polio virus on March 27, 2014, by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It has been country’s biggest public health achievement in recent times.